Even if you’ve never cooked before, the benefits of home cooking at your fingertips. Many recipes for baked goods are not difficult. Plum Coffee Cake-well is a good example. The coffee cake is a great way to be more servings of fruit to your diet for breakfast, brunch or a late night snack and the best of all, it’s easy to do.

For success, start collecting all the ingredients and equipment. Let the butter sit at room temperature until it is soft. This makes it easier to beat the butter and sugar, to take in air and form a fluffy, creamy mixture. Add eggs cold butter, cream and sugar could be the butter back and hard to curdle the batter. To avoid this, take the eggs from the refrigerator about 20-30 minutes before you use them or in a bowl with warm water while you are assembling the other ingredients.

Lower the mixer speed helps the flour mixture to fly in the air. Why overbeating flour your cake could tighten, play only until the dough is smooth. Using rubber spatula or a spoon, add half the fruit by hand. Be gentle to avoid crushing of prunes.

In about half an hour from the time of Pop in the oven, you have a cake that you can proudly serve to family and friends. Nobody has to know how easy it was to cook!

Plum Cake-good coffee

1 (9 inch) pie or 8 servings

02:01 Cup (1 stick) butter

softened

03:02 cup sugar

4 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

1 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

2.1 teaspoon pumpkin pie

Spice

1 1 / 2 cups diced fresh plums

(Approximately 8 oz)

Icing sugar;

optional

In a small bowl at medium speed, play together butter and sugar until fluffy. The eggs and vanilla until thoroughly mixed. Mix the flour, baking powder and spices. Flour mixture to egg mixture. Beat at low speed until smooth. Fold in 3 / 4 cup plum. Pour into pan lightly greased 9-inch round cake or quiche. Top with remaining plums.

In a preheated 375 F oven until lightly browned and top springs when touched with a finger, about 30-35 minutes. Cool on a rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired. Cut into wedges. Hot or cold.

Nutrition information per serving without sugar dusting 08:01 recipe: 283 calories, 15 g total fat, 137 mg cholesterol, 210 mg sodium, 101 mg potassium, 33 g carbohydrate, 5 g protein and 10% or more of the RDI for vitamin A, riboflavin